"stop living"-
DisgruntledApe
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| game. | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 07/30/99 07:07 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | Starcraft(1), Text Only(1) | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 1, Max: 6, Min: 6
Lifetime Rating for Drinnar: 6.0000 |  | This is my first battle report. Flame me all you want haha.
I played this game about 5 months ago on the ladder.
Map: Lost Temple
Players: Drinnar (Zerg) - 1023
[S&C]_SUN (Protoss) - 1387
I started off spawning in the 12:00 position while my opponent started at 9. I started up my favorite build order for zerg (at that time). Double hatching to my natural taking a risk that i wouldnt be zealot rushed. Well i hit 9 control and built an extractor and then an extra drone and canceled the extract. When i had about 230 minerals i sent my drone to my natural. About this time he had scouted me and he knew what i was doing. But i wasnt worried i thought i had everything under control.
At 300 minerals i made my hatch and made a spawner at 150. Little did i know that he had a probe watching the undefended expansion and he waited until it finished building and sent in his 4 Zealots, yay. Well he killed my expansion hatch and decided to waltz up my ramp, but when he came to attack me he was beaten back by 8 lings and 2 sunkens that i had put up when i saw the zealots come in for a free kill on my hatch. He ran back to the top of my ramp where his peon was making 4 cannons. I had no clue that he had even made a pylon. It's looking real good for me huh? Well surprisingly he didn't push his advantage, instead he decided to power, and he powered all to hell taking his natural expansion and the 2 islands. Meanwhile im busting out with 3 hatches at my main pumping hydras and lings. When i had about 12 hydras and 24 lings i decide its time to break out and kill off the off. cannon. I lose 7 hydras and 18 lings, he loses 4 cannons a pylon and 6 zealots (he sent 2 for reinforcement). I expand immediately to my natural and get a spire and a queens nest going, along with 2 evolution chambers and the zergling speed upgrade. Im down to about 500 minerals and 800 gas. I decide I should expand again and I take 3:00's natural expansion. When my Queen's nest is finished i make a hive and all the while im pumping out scourges and hydralisks in fear of a carrier hit.
About 5 minutes after i get my 3 o' clock expansion online he comes in with 10 carriers with 2/1/3 upgrades. I send about 24 scourges over and send 4-5 per carrier, i quickly kill 5 and the others run back to his island expansion. This is when i learned about his island expands. Well he makes 7 more carriers and sends over his bunch of 12. I have 3 expansions online, my natural at 12, the natural at 3 and 3's main. Well great i beat back his 12 carriers with 50 or so scourges. I have lots and lots of money so cost wasnt a problem.. production was. I make 5 hatcheries at 3's second natural which is in front of my base and i slap down 2 defiler mounds at my main all of the while upgrading hydralisk spines and armor. This guy was not going land, i could see that. I upgrade consume and plague for the defiler and pump 3 out. Knowing that these guys are very easy targets I also upgrade burrow.
This is when he decides to hit my expansion at 3's natural again, but this time he has 10 corsairs with 12 carriers, 2/3/3 upgrades. I tried sending my scourges (i had about 40). This game is when I learned that corsairs eat scourges alive yay. i get 3 or 4 shots on the carriers by goin around the corsairs but thats about it. I send in my 30 hydralisks and 2 defilers and a few zerglings for defiler food. He spots my defilers but only manages to kill 1 before the other used swarm and then plague'd the stacked carriers. My hydralisks kill 7 before he wises up and uses dweb to stop me. i have to move my hydras out of the swarm and continue the fight without defiler support (i couldnt find my lings to eat). He rips up my expansion and heads for my expansion at 3. Well luckily i was upgrading to a greater spire and making mutalisks before he even attacked. I forgot about these until after i lost my hydras to carriers/dweb. I quickly make 8 devourers and hope he doesnt do too much damage while im waiting. I send in a delay squad of 16 hydras and a defiler, i plague the corsairs and swarm around the hydralisks so i can get free hits, but i am stopped short because of dweb. FINALLY!! My devourers are done and are at 2/1 upgrades because i had nothing better to do with my money. Well i rip up his corsairs and engage the carriers with 5 hydras and 6 devourers. He knows when to bail, he runs all of his carriers to his main this time where he has shield batteries.
Its my turn, i expand at 3 and 3's natural yet again and i take over 6's natural not know that he expanded at 6's main. Well i found out soon enough when the natural at 3 was mined out (it had only 100 minerals per pile when i re-expanded). I decide to go offence, i send a group of 12 hydras 4 guardians and the remaining 6 devourers i had along with 8 scourges to kill his main. I know he has hella cannons at his natural so i swarm my hydras, right out of range of his cannons. But this guy has 3 templars on his ledge and with a few well placed storms, one in the center of the swarm one in back and one in front, he made quick work of my hydras. Well it's not looking good for me. Until i find his expansion at 6, which doesnt look like its been up for long judging by the way the minerals look and that he doesnt have a gas mine on it yet. i send 16 hydras and 2 defilers to kill it, he has 5 cannons. Well i succeed in destroying the cannons and a few pylons before he sends over 7 carriers, 4 of which have 1 life. He's running out of money, this is good. My defiler doesnt have enough energy for another swarm so i only kill 3 of the carriers. I'm almost out of money, and so is he. But i have the advantage of 1 working expand over him. He has none. I continued to pump hydras and scourges until i ran out. He makes his last attack with 12 more carriers, sigh, he just won't give up. I have about 25 hydras and 1 almost dead defiler buried at 6. He is going for my expansion at the 6 o' clock natural, doesn't look good. Well i unburrow my defiler and wait until i get my hydras right underneith the carriers and i swarm, this is also the game that i learned that defilers can consume anything, not just lings. I'm in luck, he went for my hydras not my defiler, i consume a hydralisk and plague the carriers that are stacked. Well this time he doesnt run, he takes it like a man and gets his carriers killed. Well i can't attack his main because of temps, he can't attack me because he has no troops. Looks like a stalemate. Yet he tells me 'good game' and leaves. This guy was a Korean i believe because after i beat back his attacks he would say 'good' and nothing more. Not very fluent in english. Anyways this win boosted me to 1065 rating and it didnt seem to affect him as i did a '/stats' on him and he had the same rating as he had before. Hey thats fine with me.
Lessons learned - defilers get u out of tight situations.
learn them, love them
Sorry about the lack of screenshots, i played this game 5 months ago and didn't even know how to use screenshots. |
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